Ein Mahil ( ar, عين ماهل; he, עֵין מָהִל) is an Arab local council in the Northern District of Israel, located about five kilometers north-east of

Nazareth Nazareth ( ; ar, النَّاصِرَة, ''an-Nāṣira''; he, נָצְרַת, ''Nāṣəraṯ''; arc, ܢܨܪܬ, ''Naṣrath'') is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. Nazareth is known as "the Arab capital of Israel". In ...

. It was declared a local council in 1964. In it had a population of , the majority of which are Muslims.

History

Ottoman Empire

In 1596, Ein Mahil appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the '' Nahiya'' of Tabariyya, part of Safad Sanjak. It had a population of 28

Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

households. They paid a fixed tax rate of 20% on agricultural products, which included wheat, barley, fruit trees, and goats or beehives; a total of 1,355

akçe The ''akçe'' or ''akça'' (also spelled ''akche'', ''akcheh''; ota, آقچه; ) refers to a silver coin which was the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire. The word itself evolved from the word "silver or silver money", this word is deri ...

. A map by Pierre Jacotin, from 1799 showed the place named ''Ain el Mahel''. In 1838 it was noted as a Muslim village in the Nazareth district. The French explorer Victor Guérin passed by the village in the 1875, and described it as having 10 poor dwellings, surrounded by gardens of olives, figs and pomegranates. In 1881 the

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's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described it as a "Stone village, situated on very high ground, surrounded by figs and olives and arable land. It contains about 200 Moslems, and has near it a fine group of springs." A population list from about 1887 showed that ''’Ain Mahil'' had about 195 Muslim inhabitants.

British Mandate

In the

1922 census of Palestine The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922. The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The divisi ...

conducted by the British Mandate authorities, 'Ain Mahel had a population of 516, all Muslims.Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Nazareth, p
38
/ref> The population increased in the

1931 census of Palestine The 1931 census of Palestine was the second census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate for Palestine. It was carried out on 18 November 1931 under the direction of Major E. Mills after the 1922 census of Palestine. * Census of P ...

to 628, of whom 1 was Christian and the rest Muslims, in a total of 109 occupied houses. In the 1945 statistics the population was 1,040 Muslims,Department of Statistics, 1945, p
8
/ref> with 13,390

dunam A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount ...

s of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 1,486 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 6,748 for cereals, while 35 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p
159
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